Hosiery



June 9, 1925 1,541,008

L. TLUCKA HOSIERY Filed Aug. 18, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 a LA) a WITNESSJune 9, 1925 1,541,008

- L. TLUCKA v HOSIERY Filed Aug, 18, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented June9, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS 'ILUCKA, or PA'I'ERSON, NEW JERSEY.

HOSIERY.

Application filed August 18, 1924. Serial No. 732,754.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs TLUCKA, a citizen of Austria, residing atPaterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hosiery, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to knitted hosiery and its object is to provide abarrier to prevent a run in a stocking from reaching beyond somepredetermined line, as near the point where such runs are usuallystarted in hosiery by disruption of a thread due to wear of a garterclasp, such barrier being so formed as to leave the stocking free toexpand in the zone occupied by the barrier, and in addition to providein the structure of the barrier means affording elasticity or havingcapacity'to stretch and contract supplemental to such as exists in thebarrier itself and which will serve as a constricting garterincorporated in the stocking, so that the latter can be sold for useeither with or without a separate garter.

In the manufacture of knitted goods it is common to join edges of thesame, as

at the heels and toes of hosiery, in machinesof the class representedfor example in the Koehler Patent No. 1,026,808, the actual joiningelement being thread (usually two tlneads) knotted at close intervalsand having its thread interlinked with loops of the joined portions ofthe fabric, the knots formed existing entirely independently of thethread or yarn of the fabric-and by knots I mean ties which would notpermit disintegration upon mere disru tion of extraneous thread, as thatof the oops of the joined portions of the fabric. In the improvedstocking herein set forth I arrange such a joining element so as toextend in a circumferential line of the stocking, thus to form a barrierto prevent a run in the stocking. My invention further contemplatesincorporating in this element, when embodied in a stocking in the waystated, an elastic constricting member, as of rubber, whereby thestocking will have not only an anti-run barrier but may be worn ifdesired without separate garters of any kind, to be then held up by saidelastic member.

It is not material what particular stitch is employed in said element toform its-knots in carrying out the stated object of my in- Fig. 5 showsthe knot-formation in thebarrier; and

Fig. 6 shows the manner of incorporating the elastic constrictingmember.

I herein describe the invention as applied to full-fashioned hose.

The hose isknitted from the top down in the usual way,-but near its topand in two transverse lines extending the full width of the goods theloops are formed enlarged, as indicated at a a in Fig. 3, The'loops arefacilitate fitting them over points (as 12 in the. said Koehler patent)of a looping machine. Said loops are then fitted over the mentionedpoints and, the intervening knitformed enlarged in the courses a a so asto ted material 3) being cut away, in the operation of the loopingmachine the one course of loops becomes joined to the other by theknot-formation 0 produced, from suitably.

supplied threads, by the looping machine (Fig. 5). An essential featureof the inven-- tion as so far described is the presence in the hose ofa. knot-formation, as c, which joins the portions of the fabric aboveand below the same and is longitudinally elastic, whereby it will giveand take with the fabric when the latter expands and contracts. I haveshown in Fig. 5 the said knot-formation (which is here a two-thread onein common use) diagrammatically and open, the knots or ties being notdrawn up close as the element actually exists when produced by thelooping machine so that their structure may be apparent. It will beunderstood that said element is a knot-for mation whose knots existentirely independently of the thread or yarn of the fabric, the termknots in this description and in the appended claim referring to ties ofthe kind I have already hereinbeforc defined, the importance of theknots being that they prevent any ravelling out or disintegration Abarrier is afiorded, a Will. be under- I stood, in the sense that when arun reaches the edge of the portion of the fabric afl'ected whichadjoins the barrier it has exhausted its possibilities for proceedingfurther.

In Fig. 6 I have shown an elastic member,

- as a rubber strip 6, running through or incorporated with theknot-formation. In the example illustrated this strip is fed into theknots or ties of said element when they are formed by the loopingmachine in the same directionsee the arrow as the knot-formation is fedfrom the point of forming the same, and so it progresses with and sobecomes bound in the knots.

The fabric is then removed from the looping machine and seamed along itsedges 65 to give it the form of hose (Fig. 1) and otherwise finished inthe regular way.

The barrier element is preferably formed endless, which will of courseresult when the fabric is seamed along the edges 03 to form the stockingand the ends of said element,

become bound together by the seaming process; this is not indispensable,through ifsaid element were not endless its ends would tend to p'uckerthe material, whichusually would be undesirable.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claimas new and desireto se cure by Letters Patent is:

-A knitted tubular fabric comprising two knitted tubular portionsarranged edge to edge and whose courses substantially parallel ,eachother and an attenuated element arranged between said edges andextending in a circumferential line of the fabric and formed of threadtied in knots at given in- .tervals throughout its length, said elementLOUIS. TLUCKA.

